Page 12 December 10, 1990 The Clarion
Brevard women finish fourth in national soccer finals
Heidi Kaiser's face is beaming with joy because background, the Lady Bobcats look like they wish
she has just blasted a goal against Lees-McRae in they were elsewhere. (Clarion photos by Jock
the Nov. 3 Region X championship victory. In the Lauterer)
Three Brevard Tales from between the hedges.
women soccer
players named
All-American
If I’d only had a chimp.
Brevard College's women's soccer
team completed an unprecedented year,
finishing fourth in the NJCAA
Women's Soccer National Champion
ships, Nov. 17.
The first game Thursday, Nov. 15,
pitied No. 2 BC against No. 1 St. Louis
Community College of Florissant
Valley, Mo., Thursday in the opening
round of the national championships in
Trenton, N.J. Coach Joe Bartlinski said,
"That was definitely the national title
game right there, because Flo went out
and beat Schoolcraft (who we'd already
beaten) in the finals 4-0. So, whoever
won our game honestly had the best
shot at winning the national title."
St. Louis-Flo Valley opened the
scoring with just one minute left in the
half. BC responded 30 minutes into the
second half on a steal by Jennifer
McMaster, a cross from Heidi Kaiser
and the goal by Nikki Thompson.
St. Louis-Flo Valley made the go-
ahead goal with 15 minutes left in the
game after BC goalie Tammy Scott had
made four consecutive saves.
"It's a shame we had to play the
top-ranked team first," said Coach
Bartlinski, "but they played well. The
last 15 minutes was all ours, attacking
and crashing, but we just couldn't
finish. It was a battle all the way."
BC advanced in the loser's bracket
to a Friday game with Anne Arundel of
Maryland, and there, the Lady Tornadoes
took out their frustrations with a 4-1
win. "We just dominated," Bartlinski
said. "We were disappointed (by the
Thursday loss) and I told the girls we
were just going to have to prove we're
the top team in the nation by going out
and stomping everyone else. They
regrouped, and they did."
BC advanced next to the cold and
nasty game against Mitchell, winning 2-
1 Saturday in the freezing rain and wind
on the hard field at Trenton.
Coach Bartlinski describes the day
as "the worst day of soccer I've ever
been involved in as far as the weather
went." Still, it was a great game for
BC. Mitchell, ranked third most of the
year, scored in the first ten minutes.
And, after two BC goals were disallowed
by the refs, BC tied it with Heidi
Kaiser's blast.
Laura Clark won it for the Tor
nadoes in the second half on an
attacking goal in which she commanded
the ball with her back to the keeper,
then turned and .scored the clinchcr.
It was the final BC game for
sophomore starters (everyone except
freshman goalie Tammy Scott):
Samantha Griffiths, Lenny McClellan,
Linda Hunt, Laura Clark, Vicki Ruiz,
Nikki Thompson, Colleen Runion,
Heidi Kaiser, Jennifer McMaster and
Jennifer Keltner. Colleen Runion was
named Aii-Toumament.
“ BC News Bureau
Three players from Brevard
College's highly-successful women's
soccer team have been named All-
Americans last month.
Colleen Runion, a sophomore
from St. Louis, and Samantha Griffiths,
a sophomore from Universal City,
Texas, were named All-American first
team by the National Junior College
Athletic Association. Jennifer
McMaster, an Orlando, Fla.,
sophomore, was named second team All-
American.
According to BC Women's Soccer
Coach Joe Bartlinski, three is the
highest number of players from any
school to be named All-American this
fall. Also, the three Lady Tornadoes are
the first women in the school's history
to earn All-American status.
"We're very pleased," he said, "but
a couple of others deserved All-
American as well." BC finished with a
17-3 record, fourth in the nation, and the
best in the school's history of women's
soccer.
BC News Bureau
by John Wellenhofer
Clarion Sports Editor
Well, here we are in the dead of a
colorful winter and once again my foot
IS ten inches in my mouth.
A while back, I wrote a piece
stating how this year's college football
national championship race was a joke.
I've never been so surprised to see the
top 25 in utter chaos (not that it's a big
accomplishment to surprise me — it
happens daily).
At this moment, Lov and his
Benders are probably praying, the
Cavaliers are drinking the pain away,
and Colorado is hoping to get 5th down
more often.
Heisman winner Ty Detmer and
his fellow Mormons were thinking
Number One, but the Hawaii Rainbow
Warriors smacked some sense into
them. There's always the Yellowjackets
of Georgia Tech and how they are
possibly wondering where they would
be without the Tar Heels (quite a bit of
wondering going on, eh?)
The basic fact of the matter is that
a chimp could have made better
predictions but I don't have access to a
chimp, so sue me, or give me a lifetime
expulsion (like Dex Manley said, "See
you in a year.")
Even more ironic is the situation
of the bowl committees who've shelled
out a truckload of money to sub-lime
teams such as past Number One and
Hokie favorite Virginia or the Gator
bait Auburn Tigers. Folks, to tel! the
truth, just about anybody can win the
national title except Kansas maybe, and
even they're working on it.
The hour grows late and I have
grown weary from too much thought of
this ever-confusing subject. I would
hope that this time next year I will have
grown either more accurate on my
predictions or the NCAA will have
worked out a Division 1 playoff. I
surely don't see the first of the two
happening any time soon, and I'm
holding my breath on the second.
For now these egghead
sportswriters and the donut-happy
coaches will have to settle for ballots.
I've now missed the first ten minutes of
roller derby and the understandable fact
is we won't know who the national
champion is until Jan. 2, so why not
wait until then? (Amazing it took me
that long to figure it out, eh?)